GoDaddy + Launching the GO (Rebrand)
Sr. Creative Operations Manager
Redesign GoDaddy’s global brand to reflect its evolution as a global trusted digital partner for over 21 million entrepreneurs.
GoDaddy started selling domains over 25 years ago to help anyone establish an online presence. Since then, the internet has fundamentally changed entrepreneurship by creating a new model for people to start, grow, and manage their businesses. GoDaddy has evolved, too, from service provider to trusted partner, giving entrepreneurs all the help and tools they need to thrive online.
As the core brand team’s Creative Operations Lead, I played a key role in the rollout of an entirely new global design system across Social, Display, International, YouTube, Broadcast + OTT, FOS, Building Signage, Swag, and OOH that reflects the brand’s evolution, captures its future vision, and guides creative work across the company.
We examined every class of brand component to ensure it fulfilled the promise of our brand strategy while serving millions of everyday entrepreneurs who trust us with their online success.
The "GO" is a clear statement of advocacy for entrepreneurs everywhere—a symbol of empowerment that encourages them to stand on their own two feet. It was created as a visual representation of the space where three ideas meet: entrepreneurial spirit, joy, and humanity.
The GoDaddy Brand Style Guide is the source of truth for our global brand. It answers common creative questions and includes how-to-build best practices that illuminate how our brand components fit together seamlessly.
GoDaddy’s new brand was built on the idea of a smashable design system that leaned heavily into a few core elements: the brand mark, the teal hero color, a new typeface family, new photography guidelines, and a conversational yet compelling voice and tone.
To explain the philosophy behind these brand elements and show how they come together to create harmonious brand experiences, I worked very closely with the Design team to craft the first digital version of the brand style guide. Teams throughout the company use the guide to ensure the brand shows up how we intended.
With a new brand came the job of reimagining the systems that support it. This effort required translating our brand tenets, guidelines, and asset examples into digital documents to guide specific internal audiences in the execution of brand creative work. To accomplish this, I directly managed the Design team and created the most important pieces of our documentation library—the GoDaddy Brand Style Guide, Brand Portfolio Guidelines, GoDaddy Registry Sub-Brand, and Workplace Brand Playbook.
I also worked very closely with this team to digitize all 12 GoDaddy Styleguides including Messaging, Naming, Email, Paid Display, Social, etc.
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